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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Sakharov.
(b) Walesa.
(c) Dubcek.
(d) Vaclav Havel.

2. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Roger Clemens.
(b) Pedro Martinez.
(c) Gary Carter.
(d) Robin Ventura.

3. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) Two hours.
(d) An hour.

4. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They were told by the camp commandant.
(b) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.
(c) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(d) They saw him shot.

5. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) A month.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) One year.
(d) 60 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

2. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

3. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?

4. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

5. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

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